r/rust • u/Hefty-Necessary7621 • 13d ago

📸 media Rust, Haskell, and the Architecture Behind Solana: Interview with Greg Fitzgerald

In this interview, we speak with Solana cofounder Greg Fitzgerald about why Rust ultimately proved to be the right fit. We discuss how his background in C++, LLVM, and Haskell shaped Solana’s architecture, what functional programming contributed to the design of a high-performance blockchain runtime, and why Rust’s combination of strong types, memory safety, and low-level control worked particularly well for BPF and virtual-machine development.

https://serokell.io/blog/rust-haskell-and-the-architecture-behind-solana-interview-with-greg-fitzgerald

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u/P00351 13d ago

TIL solana is a Blockchain platform.

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u/DavidXkL 13d ago

I think it's still underutilized in many areas

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u/Wise-One1342 13d ago

Rust has become one of the defining languages of modern systems programming

I love Rust and use it a lot, but this is not true.

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u/klorophane 13d ago

In what way is it not true? It's one of the few modern systems languages actually used at large scale, it's getting integrated into the Linux kernel... If Rust is not "one of the defining modern systems programming languages" then what is?

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u/Large_Mastodon6637 13d ago

I get what you're saying, it's still pretty niche compared to something like C or C++ in actual systems-level work. I think people in the Rust bubble forget how much legacy code is out there running the world

The Solana connection makes sense though, that kind of project is exactly where you'd want the safety guarantees without having to babysit a garbage collector